popper wrote:TGW wrote:^^That article seems to be mistitled. It should be called "The Failure of Bad Policy", not multiculturalism.
That's a good point but the larger issue I took from the article is the inability of governments to formulate a set of values that unite and tie together the various cultures into a larger "national community." The same is happening in this country, and since there is no agreed upon set of American values to bind us together, then by default, we separate. This separation is encouraged by activist and identity focused media and political leaders. My two cents.
Yes. What that article says to me. Is that the failure is not multiculturalism. But indeed to integrate these Multicultural communities.
And Americans have shown that they will integrate. However reluctantly in some small factions.
Instead what we have in this country in my opinion is the left, Democrats, liberals, have now used multiculturalism as a weapon. To create lines of division. All so they can win votes.
Mlk was a uniter. Just like Booker Washington. Where Malcolm x and Dubois were divisive. And I understand that you need both. 1 as a cutter to break the ice and create the waves in the water so the ice won't form, and the other to bring sides together. I fully understand and appreciate that you need both I wrote a dissertation piece on this 25 years ago.
But where is the left's " uniter" today. I argue that they don't have one. And this is one of the Colossal failures of Barack Obama presidency. Like Booker. Like mlk. he was in the pole position to be "the Uniter" and he blew it. Simply, he would not compromise. He would not reach across the aisle and frankly across America. We thought he would. Landslide election in 2008. We certainly thought he would.
Instead. And worse. He went on an 8-year apology tour to the rest of the world weeking weakening are negotiating power across the entire globe as he tried to jam globalism down all Americans throats. He swore to all Americans up and down that 3-4% growth and above was no longer possible for the United States economy. Any further moved legislation along to move our jobs overseas. telling us that those manufacturing jobs were gone and lost forever.
The worst part is he wanted the new incoming Administration to be able to further his globalist agenda. So desperate to do so that he weaponized his outgoing DOJ to spy on and muck up the incoming Administration along the way. This will be a Nixonia type scandel when it's all said and done.
And where we find ourselves today is divided.
So the argument can be made that Obama for all his eloquent rhetoric, was more the Dubois or the Malcolm X of this era and indeed we are waiting for the MLK and the Booker T Washington of this era to step up.
Who will it be? I don't see him or her anywhere. All I see is dividers. And it doesn't work that way. It's not effective. You need a strong divisive voice combined with a more mild uniting voice to effect change. To unite communities. To unite the country.
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I want greater immigration not up our birthrate... and (if I was the supreme ruler) the immigration policy would be skewed to bringing in 25 to 40 year old educated workers; female more than male; and with a notion that we would bring them from as many countries as possible (clearly won't happen in the Trump administration). That would mean terminating familial priority and birthright citizenship (clearly won't happen with the current D leadership). 
A Nothing Burger as you liked to say, be happy with your bone, Clinton had nothing to do with the deal.